Our Family Project

Monday we got our new history curriculum in the mail.  I've been waiting and waiting to get this curriculum.  I wanted to purchase it at the homeschool convention in July, but none of the vendors there had it.  So, I decided to wait until after we finished our old history curriculum, and then also our new science curriculum before getting the new history curriculum.  (Make sense?) I spent some time introducing the method of this curriculum to the children today at lunch.  This curriculum is written for grades 6-12.  So, my littles will probably have a hard time really getting into the curriculum without some help from me.  But, we'll see. This specific curriculum spoke to me two years ago when I first starting researching curriculum for homeschooling.  I loved its approach.  I still do.  Only, last year when we started homeschooling, I went with a different history curriculum with a focus in ancient civilizations.  Which was fin...

In April we participated in our homeschool group's Geography Fair.  We went the easy route because we were throwing together our project at the last minute, and chose to do our project on Chile!  It was easy because that's where Jon served his mission.  So, we had a bunch of little items that showcased the culture there.  Jon and I traced the map on a long sheet of paper, and, okay, we colored it too.  We are such control freaks.  Oh well.  The children drew little pictures/icons of exports, produce, and other things that symbolized specific things we learned about Chile.  We got to the part and everything was set up trunk-or-treat style ... which was so great!  Although, our friends in the car next to us did their report on Argentina ... the sworn enemy of Chile! Then, came the presentation!  This was the fun part.  Eliza, Kate and I got together the day before the fair and wrote a rap for our presentation.  Then, we broke u...